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Scientists from the French Blood Bank (Etablissement français du sang), in collaboration with several researchers including Stéphane Haïk, team leader at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM, have just developed a biological test capable of detecting the...
Huntington’s disease, which affects about 6 000 individuals in France, is characterized by the progressive outbreak of motor, behavioral and cognitive disorders. Researchers from Alexis Brice’s team have participated in a collaborative project aiming...
Transcranial direct current stimulation could be beneficial in treating primary progressive aphasia. This is what a pre-therapeutic study recently showed, conducted by teams led by Dr. Marc Teichmann, from the Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP Hospital...
Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease of the nervous central system leading to a progressive destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding the axons, essential for their protection and for the transmission of the nerve impulse. Bruno Stankoff...
Among the many different types of tumors developing from the brain, diffuse gliomas are the most frequent. Their characteristics make them very difficult to treat and relapses are frequent. Dr Frank Bielle from the Experimental Neuro-oncology team...
Nervous system development is very complex. In most animals, axon guidance processes (how axons reach the correct targets) are more complex in the brain compared to the spinal cord. Defects in brain wiring during embryo development can lead to...
The Paulo Gontijo Institute awarded the International Medicine PG Award to Edor Kabashi, team leader at the Brain and Spine Institute – Institut du Cerveau, for his research on the development of new models and new therapeutic avenues for Amyotrophic...
Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant drug. Its effects depend on the dose and time of administration. Importantly, it is used in the United States to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ph.D. student Sofia Baptista...
Patients with pure alexia completely or partially lose the ability to read. Laurent Cohen, Paris Brain Institute neurologist and researcher, and his team, in collaboration with a London team, wanted to understand the brain mechanism at stake in this...
Rita Raisman-Vozari, and Patrick Michel, researchers from Etienne Hirsch's team at the Institut du Cerveau - ICM (CNRS, Inserm, UPMC), as well as other researchers from the Biomolecular, Conception, Isolation and Synthesis Lab (CNRS/ParisSud...
During generalized seizures, in which epileptic activities affect the entire cerebral cortex, patients undergo an interruption of their conscious processes and are unable to deal efficiently with sensory stimuli. Using a genetic model of absence...
